Baz Luhrmann Quotes
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.
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I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
